[학술논문] China’s Dilemma on the Korean Peninsula: Not an Alliance but a Security Dilemma
...China nor North Korea can afford to abandon the alliance against the South Korea-U.S. and U.S.-Japan alliances. An abandonment strategy toward alliances is effective only if a state has a strategic option to defend itself on its own or to align with others, and if an ally can defect and/or align with others, including the adversaries of the alliance. The true motivation for China’s attitude...
[학술논문] Does Political Generation Matter for Foreign Policy? South Korea’s Foreign Policy Changes, 2003 to 2007
...2003–2007, in this article I show that when a political generation with distinctive emotions and preferences rises in power, it can have a significant impact on foreign policy. Despite the alliance ties with the United States and North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons, the Roh government sought to redefine relations with the former, while deepening economic and political...
[학술논문] Korea’s Balancing Act: Playing the Long Game
...environment of Northeast Asia and how it affects the defense decision-making of the Republic of Korea. This paper also assesses the current state of the South Korean alliance with the United States and considers how the state of this alliance affects Korean security decision-making, and finds that South Korea is attempting to balance the regional security threats it perceives with changing domestic political...
[학술논문] China’s Dilemma on the Korean Peninsula
...mainly originates from the uncertainty about security protection. While the distrust from the South is mainly due to the China-North Korea military alliance. China is facing a dilemma on the Korean peninsula: no matter how it strengthens or weakens its alliance with the North, it will inevitably hurt one of its friends. No matter how good China’s intentions are, its actions are questioned by the...
[학술논문] 미․중관계와 한미동맹: 연루상황하 약소국의 전략적 선택
2013년 60년을 맞는 한미동맹은 탈냉전기 국제체계의 구조적 전환 속에서, 숨겨져 있던 “동맹정치(alliance politics)”의 활발한 움직임을 목도하고 있다. 동맹정치는 정상적인 동맹행위이며, 비대칭동맹이 태생적으로 가지고 있는 동학이다. 탈냉전기 한국과 미국이 인식하는 위협은 전혀 다르며, 한미동맹의 틀 속에서 한국은 방기될 수도, 연루될 수도 있다. 방기를 우려하여 동맹을 강화하면 할수록 연루의 가능성은 높아진다. 타이완, 센카쿠, 북핵 문제는 비구조적인 위협이 미국과 중국의 구조적인 갈등으로 비화될 수 있는 주요한 사례들이며, 한국은 미․중갈등에 연루되고 선택을 강요받는다. 미․중 간의 전략적 사고 속에서 한미동맹이 어떻게 작동할 것인가의 문제는 더더욱 민감해지고 있다....